Featured Student in Sustainable Energy-- Tajdar Ahmed
Tajdar Ahmed is an international student with a keen interest in studying sustainable energy development and he began his journey with EIU in Fall 2016. His choice of a Master鈥檚 program at EIU came after great research and consideration of a handful of reputed universities that offer a Master鈥檚 in this field. He credits his advisor Dr. Liu鈥檚 prompt response, and enthusiasm as the biggest reasons he chose EIU over other universities. He holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in electrical engineering.
A major challenge the world faces today is the insufficient supply of renewable energy. Being a responsible and conscientious citizen of the planet, he sincerely wishes to take part in and contribute towards improving current energy conditions. After having finished almost three semesters of the course, he has been able to deliver presentations, take up personal projects, attend conferences and other activities. These experiences have helped him hone specialized skills required in the development and sustainability of the world鈥檚 renewable energy. His future plans are to gain work experience in the field of energy management and renewable resources development. Furthermore, he would like to get into a business of biofuel industry in his homeland, in the longer run.
Tajdar participates actively in projects brought under the umbrella of the Center for American Rural Energy(CARE). During summer, he led a research team of students that investigated the benefits of electrification of stone quarries across USA using Charleston Stone Quarry as a model. The study was published as an article by National Rural Electric Co-operative Association in TECH surveillance. Currently, he is working on Electrical Vehicle project in collaboration with Coles-Moultrie Electric Co-operative that provides electricity in many areas of the Coles Country. This project would primarily investigate the feasibility of running an electric car for maintenance purpose by Coles-Moultrie and will also be studying if the project could be extended to replace the entire maintenance fleet with electric vehicles.
His master鈥檚 research is based on smart home devices and their application. He presented his research "Smart Home Technologies Enabled by Smart Grid" at The Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) conference on 3rd November 2017 in Cincinnati, OH. This research primarily tried to exp